What a shock! I read the board and I finally got the issue. While there have been some issues with WU deadline and Linux WU, the real issue here is that this phase of the SZTAKI project is VERY different.

We went from <8hr/WU to >80-100hrs/WU. The expectation of finishing a WU and getting credit within the day is gone. I just turned in a 90 hour WU. http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/workunit.php?wuid=39650
Since I am the 1 of 3 quorum, I can probably wait several weeks to get my 690 pending credits since it has to go to 2 others and they have to run it with other projects.

I find this similar to Climate Prediction vs Einstein for time (Yes, I realize CPDN gives trickle credits along the way).

Therefore, everyone please stick with it. Otherwise it will take even long for quorums of results to get done.

I have 5 laptops running BOINC. I have bascially put 2 full time on SZTAKI. Therefore, my 90 hr WU really to 90 hours (3.77 days).

My goal is to participate (>10,000 credits/project) in as many boinc projects as possible. So far so good. http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/stats.php?userID=3580

I don\'t mind the long WUs...as long as we are given enough time to complete them. I just had a WU that was going to take 30000 hours to complete. Even running 24 hours a day this is over 100 days. When I aborted it it was at .2% and had only ten days to complete. If they are going to send out these Super WUs they need to set an adequate deadline. If you see one of thesxe Super Wus do not even bother with it abort the thing and post why you have done so...maybe the people who run this place will get the message.
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I don\'t mind the long WUs...as long as we are given enough time to complete them. I just had a WU that was going to take 30000 hours to complete. Even running 24 hours a day this is over 100 days. When I aborted it it was at .2% and had only ten days to complete. If they are going to send out these Super WUs they need to set an adequate deadline. If you see one of thesxe Super Wus do not even bother with it abort the thing and post why you have done so...maybe the people who run this place will get the message.

I\'ve had to do that twice now, and reported it both times; I\'ve got two more WUs that have made a little progress (after over a week in \"panic mode\") but probably not enough, so will also have to be killed if they don\'t show signs of improvement in the next few days.

Meanwhile, I have also been recommending patience, and was rewarded a couple of days ago by getting a \"Maximum CPU time exceeded error\" about 90% of the way through a WU after 273 hours of crunching. :(
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Found a little tweak to prevent Max_CPU_time_exceeded errors for unexpectedly long running WUs like some Sztake ones:
1- Stop BOINC (service or regular background process)
2- Go to BOINC main dir
3- Edit client_state.xml with a plain text editor like notepad
4- Locate rsc_fpops_bound. It\'s 3 lines below any Sztaki WU name.
5- Shift the decimal point one place to the right (increase the value by a factor 10). Be sure you get this right!
6- Save and exit client_state.xml
7- Restart BOINC

You\'ll have to repeat steps 4 and 5 for every Sztaki WU.

Beware of the possibility that a WU becomes caught in a loop, as BOINC will then spend a LOT of extra CPU cycles on it before aborting it.
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Found a little tweak to prevent Max_CPU_time_exceeded errors for unexpectedly long running WUs like some Sztake ones:
1- Stop BOINC (service or regular background process)
2- Go to BOINC main dir
3- Edit client_state.xml with a plain text editor like notepad
4- Locate rsc_fpops_bound. It\'s 3 lines below any Sztaki WU name.
5- Shift the decimal point one place to the right (increase the value by a factor 10). Be sure you get this right!
6- Save and exit client_state.xml
7- Restart BOINC

You\'ll have to repeat steps 4 and 5 for every Sztaki WU.

Beware of the possibility that a WU becomes caught in a loop, as BOINC will then spend a LOT of extra CPU cycles on it before aborting it.

Good hint, tried it with the remaining WUs.

Is there something to do when a WU is caught in a loop? Got some WUs over 200 hours and still under 10%!
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Found a little tweak to prevent Max_CPU_time_exceeded errors for unexpectedly long running WUs like some Sztake ones:
1- Stop BOINC (service or regular background process)
2- Go to BOINC main dir
3- Edit client_state.xml with a plain text editor like notepad
4- Locate rsc_fpops_bound. It\'s 3 lines below any Sztaki WU name.
5- Shift the decimal point one place to the right (increase the value by a factor 10). Be sure you get this right!
6- Save and exit client_state.xml
7- Restart BOINC